Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1887-07-14
MINNESOTA.

The present population Of st. Paul is
placed at 155, 900.
Anton Gorth, laboring man 81 years
of age, was drowned Mt Winona.
The new Catholic orphan asylum at
Minneapolis is completed ana occupied.
-Anoka offers choice of several sites,
any of them worth SIS, 900, for the soldiers
home.
The grand commandery of knights
TemplGr of Minnesota met at Lake City
recently.
Tho Mortified and Red Wing fire de-
partments participated in Faribault's cele-
bration.
M. Mclean, bo ok-keeper for Magofin
& Co., Duluth real estate firm, is missing.
So is $3.50.
Lake Minnetonka is having the great
est rush of visitors ever known SO early in
the season.
The furniture store of D. H. Spicer,
of St. Cloud, was burned few days ago,
involving loss of $4,000.
The prospects for crop of spring
wheat are not SO hattering as q week ago, in
consequence of the dry hot weather.
Rev. Norris Hobart, of Mankato, died
from stroke of paralysis. He was one of
the Oldest Methodist ministers in the state.
John Krebs, of Minneapolis, aged 90,
seeks divorce from his wife Laura, aged
is, on the ground of the arrival of an off,
colored child.
-Jacob Krewell, Fergus Falls brewer,
was convicted of selling keg of beer on
Sunday and sentenced to pay a fine of $50
and go to Jail.
Partial reports show falling off of
one fifth of the number of saloons in the
state under the operations of the new high
license law.
The dead body of Andrew Palm was
found at st. Peter. 1t is not known how
| he came to his death. He was 65 years old
and dissipnted.
Michael Mcnamara was fatally shot in
drunken row in West st. Paul the other
night. 7. f. McDonough is charged with
doing the shooting.
The receipts of the Albert Lea college
for the past year were So in excess of ex-
penses. Miss Laura S. Watson has re-
signed as principal.
Several citizens of St. Peter have
bought tract of ninety acres of land near
that place, an1 will lay out fair ground
and trotting course.
The strike at st. Paul has nearly died
out and conference to arrive at better
understanding between employers and en-
ployed has been held.
Gov. McGill has appointed ex-Gov.
Ramsey to represent Minnesota at the con-
| stitutional centennial celebration ut Phila-
delphia in September.
: Ignatius Donnelly's long-looked for
book, by which is to prove that Shakes
peare was Lord Bacon, will be published
before November L.
"A six-year- son Of j. W. Curtis, of
Duluth, fell down thirty feet of stairs the
other evening and fractured his skull. It
is thought possible that he may recover.
About twenty Fergus Falls people
were poisoned by eating pressed corn
beef put up in that town. None of the
cases, though serious, have yet proven
| fatal.
| Catherine Tollmann sues Mankato for
$4,000 damages, personal injuries alleged
to have been received through negligence
of the city with regard 10 the condition of
the streets.
| AT the Saltwater reunion recently
| measures were taken looking to the erec-
ton of a monument at Gettysburg in hon
or of the First Minnesota volunteers who
fell on that bloody field.
"A Minneapolis young chap accom-
panied his best girl home from church and
because she refused to kiss him at parting
proceeded to shoot himself. He was not
seriously injured, and the girl is sorry his
aim was SO unsteady.
Charley Hener, Saltwater Dane,
aged 20, was badly crushed by some oil
barrels the other day in trying to disengage
| them from the tiers in the oil cave. He
will probably die.
Albert Lea surgeons performed the
very rare operation OF removing gall
bladder, which contained sixteen stones,
from Mrs. I. @. Lewis, aged 35 years. But
few operations of the kind are on record
as having been performed in the world,
and only two previously in the United
States, The patient ID now doing finely,